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Maggie Sulc

Maggie Sulc is a scriptwriter and dramaturg hailing originally from Tennessee and Texas. She first embarked for Canada after completing her BA in English at Rice University and spent 2014 acquiring her MA in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University, interning with the Shaw Festival’s literary management department, and imbibing as much performance as possible. Maggie now divides her time between developing new writing for stage, screen, and podcasts, promoting new writing and writers through the Toronto Cold Reads, and serving as a live-in mentor and support worker for two adult women with developmental disabilities. Her current writing and dramaturgy projects involve haunted antique dolls, adaptations of poetry into theatre, humanity’s first contact with alien races, and theatre and television for young audiences. More of her day-to-day adventures as an expat and personal views as an emerging artist can be found at gladlybeyondaustinausten.wordpress.org.

 

Bloom Where You Grow
Essay

Bloom Where You Grow

Interview with Claudia Nolan, American Dramaturg

16 June 2017

In this second installment, Maggie Sulc interviews dramaturg Claudia Nolan about her experience with new play development in the Northeast region of the United States.

An American Playwright in Canada
Essay

An American Playwright in Canada

31 October 2016

In this first installment, Playwright Maggie Sulc shares her experience working and living in Canada, reflecting on successes and challenges.

It’s Not a Performance
Essay

It’s Not a Performance

14 August 2015

Scriptwriter and dramaturg Maggie Sulc reports on her participation in two convergences or pop-up residencies with Indy Convergence in Toronto and Indianapolis.

Neither Actor/Server nor Adjunct Professor Novelist
Essay

Neither Actor/Server nor Adjunct Professor Novelist

Emerging Playwright Economics

2 April 2015

Emerging playwright Maggie Sulc evaluates the advice she’s been given and the options for how to finance her playwriting path, and realizes hers may be one no one else has walked yet.

So I Guess I am a Dramaturg?
Essay

So I Guess I am a Dramaturg?

Reflecting on Toronto’s LMDA Mini-Conference

20 June 2014

We are building a shared vocabulary that may not ever fit into a dictionary or any static form, but will give us a foundation to work toward into the future. The playwrights and artistic directors, the artists, both established and emerging, all gathered at Tarragon Theatre not to shut out the harsh reality of making work in this day and age, but to huddle together and collaborate on what’s working and solutions to what’s not.

Where the Grass is Always Greener
Series

Where the Grass is Always Greener

This series explores the exciting new play development happening along the US/Canada border.